Re: [patch 10/21] buffer heads: Support slab defrag

Christoph Lameter
2008-05-21T01:56:23Z

On Wed, 21 May 2008, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:

> Cristoph, is this example you wnated to check out? It will only try to
> write .nr_to_write pages between .range_start and .range_end without
> syncing inode info itself.

Well that is what Dave wants. I'd rather go the safe route for now and
defer this until later. I think you are much more an expert on the
filesystems and I/O paths than I am. So I'd rather take my hands of as
soon as possible.